In March my dad and I put out 3 honey bee swarm traps at my parents’ property. My dad has been watching the traps and recently said he’s seen activity at all 3 traps. Sarah and I went over today to check the traps and found that 2 of the three traps have a colony […]
We currently have one Langstroth style bee hive in the orchard, but we would like to have a few more hives. We can buy a packaged box of bees that includes a queen for about $125. However, we may be able to catch local honey bees that are swarming, usually in the Spring. There are
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It was a warm day for the end of January and the bees were out and about. We were shocked to see them flying in with pollen. I thought the bees were done collecting pollen until spring, but on January 27th some bees were loaded with pollen on a warmish day.
We purchased a 5 frame nuc from The Bee Barn in Padukah, Kentucky. Installing the bees in our Langstroth hive was as easy as sliding in the nuc frames and putting the hive cover on. The hive is right in the middle of the fruit and nut orchard that we planted this spring. The bees
We are getting new bees in May after our disastrous first attempt a few years ago. We are putting a fresh coat of paint on a langstroth hive to house them in rather than putting them in our old top bar hive. Sarah wanted a soft yellow color.
I am not particularly fond of trapping bees, but these carpenter bees are wreaking havoc on our cabin. Last year the Carpenter Bees made Swiss cheese out of the soffits on the cabin. My dad made a very slick Carpenter Bee trap that I hung right under the still damaged soffit. The first bee of
We are ready to get our bees! Loren has cut and milled the cedar boards and we have about a month to get our top bar hive built. We’ll keep you posted, so *bee* looking for our updates!